User talk:BryanHolland

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  • It has been a while since you contributed. Are you still working on the spoken word version of World War I or not? If not, I've started work on it. Wikibofh(talk) 21:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Not so long ago, I was a student taking 14 credits and had nothing but time... now, summer and a 50-hour/week job have eaten my Wikipedia time. I'll cede that particular project to you... I thought I had removed myself from the table anyway. oops BryanHolland 07:56, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
      • Ok, great...thank's for the reply. Wow, that article is really long.  :) Wikibofh(talk) 17:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fission products

Hi, I have noticed that you have become interested in a rewrite of this page. I would suggest that this point you Stop and think. I think that you should get a copy of Radioactivity, Ionizing Radiation and Nuclear Energy, by J. Hala and J.D. Navratil and read it before you go any further. A page has been written on what the fission products are, this page lists them by element... I suggest that you should read Fission products (by element) before thinking, saying or editing anything more on fission products.

Also I would suggest that you should read Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry, G. Choppin, J-O Liljenzin and J. Rydberg, 3rd Ed, 2002, Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN 0750674636

You wrote

If these things were addressed (easier said than done; probably best to rewrite, especially considering the, er, less than enthusiastic use of citations regarding hard data and asserted standard practices), even if a shorter article with less information were the result, the article would be substantially improved.

If you look at the references which are present in the article then you will see it is referenced.

Also the rewritten page which you have started on contains a bad error which I saw within seconds. Your new version of the page has fictions such as lead being a fission product while the existing version was written with IAEA reports and textbooks as the sources of information.Cadmium

Hi Bryan, Sorry I now understand that I was too harsh in the way that I addressed you. I had spent ages reading IAEA reports and the two text books which I cited, so when I saw your comment about the use of citations I got a bit irate and then I started to moan at you on the talk pages. Sorry if you feel hurt, I will try and not BBQ you or anyone else again. If you do want to write NPOV matter on radiochemistry then please feel free to do so, I imagine that we will have far better lives if we either work together or co-exist in peace than we would if we were having heated disputes.Cadmium 18:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bryan, I think that peace may have broken out (which is no bad thing). I think that I was responsible for writing most of the fission product page. The citations are likely to not be in wiki style as I know much more about chemistry than I do about the exact way to write for wikipedia. If you want to write about this topic I can supply you with a list of references which are free of charge to obtained. The two books which I mentioned are ones you might be able to get via your university. I think that the one By Jiri Hala is a good introduction to the topic of all things radioactive which is aimed at the undergraduate market, the other one is a lot bigger and more heavy going. If you go to the IAEA site (http://www.iaea.org) then you can get to the publications page. This has lots of reports on different things which you can download oftein for free and read. Some of these are a bit heavy going.Cadmium

[edit] Calculus

You are totally on wavelength re simplifying the Calculus intro - as a father hoping to get my high school son's math it is a priority start with a basic big picture! I hope this comment is being submitted properly - never done one before. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Johngclarke (talk • contribs) 15:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC).